diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss.c b/drivers/block/cciss.c
index f1e7390683fd..55bd35c0f082 100644
--- a/drivers/block/cciss.c
+++ b/drivers/block/cciss.c
@@ -132,7 +132,6 @@ static struct board_type products[] = {
 /*define how many times we will try a command because of bus resets */
 #define MAX_CMD_RETRIES 3
 
-#define READ_AHEAD 	 1024
 #define MAX_CTLR	32
 
 /* Originally cciss driver only supports 8 major numbers */
@@ -1402,7 +1401,6 @@ geo_inq:
 		disk->private_data = &h->drv[drv_index];
 
 		/* Set up queue information */
-		disk->queue->backing_dev_info.ra_pages = READ_AHEAD;
 		blk_queue_bounce_limit(disk->queue, hba[ctlr]->pdev->dma_mask);
 
 		/* This is a hardware imposed limit. */
@@ -3495,7 +3493,6 @@ static int __devinit cciss_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 		}
 		drv->queue = q;
 
-		q->backing_dev_info.ra_pages = READ_AHEAD;
 		blk_queue_bounce_limit(q, hba[i]->pdev->dma_mask);
 
 		/* This is a hardware imposed limit. */